Germany - 2011
Practical obstacles and evidence of problems and differential enrollment rates for certain minorities?
- Code:
- RED75
- Key Area:
- Education
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination, Equality
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In the German school system, the first selection in separate educational tiers takes place after four years. This is seen as a factor which hampers students whose mother tongue is not German to enter higher educational tiers. The result is an overrepresentation of minority students in the lower educational stratum. The early selection in different educational tiers has also been criticised by the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism (Peucker 2010, 19). A study on the educational situation of German Sinti and Roma (Studie zur aktuellen Bildungssituation deutscher Sinti und Roma) shows that the low level of education and educational achievements is caused by a variety of factors. It indicates that this minority group has to deal with direct and indirect discrimination in the education system. On the one hand, the reasons are found within the family and its attitude to education, respectively to the level of education. Yet, on the other hand, institutional and societal circumstances also restrain the educational careers of Roma and Sinti. Although to a lesser degree, subtle discrimination by teachers in schools can be observed. Sinti and Roma are often confronted with prejudices and are stigmatized in a negative way as “gypsies”, etc. Some respondents mentioned discrimination by teachers as in paying less attention to their needs and by making discriminatory comments related to common stereotypes about their ethnic group (Migazin 2011; Strauß 2011). Source:
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| Groups affected/interested | Roma & Travelers, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, National minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Education |
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